George Simeon Binnicker Family

First Generation

Charles James Binnicker is said to be the father of George Simeon Binnicker, but some online files give impossible dates for their respective births.
I've also found conflicting information on the name of George's mother, and would be grateful for a well-documented history of the earlier generations. The most persuasive site I've seen calls her Charity Williams, and gives her first husband's surname as Ritter. If correct, this is probably the source of several files that call her Nee Ritter Williams; in reality she would have been Charity Ritter, née (i.e. born) Williams. Can anyone confirm this?

Second Generation

George Simeon Binnicker appears in the 1850 census for Orangeburg Co. SC with Sarah and eight children. He died 27 Nov 1864, and is buried with Sarah at St. George Baptist Church.
I don't have dates for either marriage and therefore can't tell which children are by which wife, except that the youngest ones must be Sarah's. The older children's names and dates, and most of the spouses, were obtained from on-line genealogies with no documentation, but I verified that the ages were approximately correct compared to the 1850 census records.

This family was reconstructed based on the 1850, 1860 and 1880 census records. I can't find them in 1870.

John V. appears in the 1850 census age 2/12, but is only 7 in 1860.
If his age is that far off in 1860, the other children's ages may be wrong also.

Sources

I'm grateful to Peggy Miller and other contacts from the Orangeburgh SC e-mail list for information on this and other families in this area.

The rest of my information came from reconstructions of families from the census and other public records, supplemented by reference to various on-line family trees, not all of which included documentation.